Gondola (disambiguation)

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A gondola is a traditional Venetian rowing boat, best known today for transporting tourists.

Gondola may also refer to:

Places

  • Gondola, Mozambique, the principal town of Gondola District, Mozambique
  • Gondola Point, a community in New Brunswick, Canada
  • Gondola Ridge, Antarctica

Transport

Compartments or platforms

  • Gondola (airplane), a compartment on the underside of a powered fixed-wing aircraft
  • Gondola (airship), an external equipment or passenger compartment attached to a powered blimp or dirigible
  • Gondola (balloon), a payload basket or capsule suspended beneath an unpowered hot air or gas balloon
  • Gondola (Ferris wheel), a passenger car or cabin or capsule attached to the rim of the wheel
  • Gondola, a capsule in which a test subject is situated at the end of the rotating arm of a human centrifuge
  • Gondola lift, or cable car, a type of aerial lift
    • Gondola, used to carry passengers in various types of aerial lift
    • Bicable gondola lift
    • Tricable gondola lift
  • Gondola, the cargo or passenger platform suspended beneath a transporter bridge
  • Gondola, a suspended platform used by window cleaners
  • Gondola, major component of the Falkirk Wheel rotating boat lift in Scotland, UK
  • Spy gondola, an observation compartment lowered beneath an airship

Vehicles

  • Gondola (rail), a type of railroad car with an open top and enclosed sides, for carrying loose bulk materials
  • SY Gondola, an 1859 preserved steam yacht operated by the National Trust on Coniston Water, England

Other uses

  • Gondola (retail), a free-standing display unit
  • Gondola (magazine), a Belgian retailing monthly
  • Gondola Group, a restaurant chain with 600 locations in the UK and Republic of Ireland
  • "Gondola no Uta" ("The Gondola Song")
  • House of Gondola, a noble family from Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • 1891 Gondola, an asteroid

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Gondola
  • All pages with titles containing Gondola
  • Gondolier (disambiguation)
  • Gundalow, a type of flat bottom cargo boat once common on the rivers of New England, US
  • List of gondola lifts
  • Gundulić, a noble family from Dubrovnik, Croatia


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